Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 8,262 posts is dedicated to providing great information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Otis Redding (1941-1967)
Astronaut Mae C. Jemison
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Mae C. Jemison (1956- )
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Dunbar Hotel (1928- )
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Cardiss Collins (1931- )

Explore Global African History

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Sam Langford: History’s Forgotten Boxer
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Lazaro Medina (1965 -2013)
Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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(1973) Desmond Tutu, “God-given Dignity and the Quest for Liberation”
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Usain St. Leo Bolt (1986- )

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Henrietta Lacks and the Debate Over the Ethics of Bio-Medical Research
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Telling Secrets, Spying Freedom: A Novel Account of Mary Bowser’s Civil War Espionage
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Afro-Uruguay: A Brief History
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In the Land of Czars and Commissars: African Americans in Russia, the Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet Russia, 1824-2015

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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